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How to Use Macros to Simplify Your Life
via [Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News by JR Raphael on April 25, 2008
By JR RaphaelContributing Writer, [GAS]Here’s an offer too good to refuse: Take every tedious, repetitive task that wastes your time…and automate it. The cost? Two minutes to read this article, and maybe five more to do what it says. Interested? Read on.What we’re about to do will save you precious time and mental energy. Unfortunately, it only applies to tedious tasks at your PC –...
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Foux du fa fa
via In a Jar by La Canadienne on April 25, 2008
I have always been very prone to bouts of nostalgia. Every so often I get lost in memory, go back through bits of the brief journals I'd keep now and then, and often, cry. I'm a big sap. Doesn't matter if it's a happy thing or a sad thing, thinking about the past just gets me in a weepy way. For some reason, I tend to think that things won't get better, that the best is...
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Painting
via artings by lk on April 16, 2008
I couldn't do anything else...had to get something out...didn't expect any paintings this year...but, then...sometimes you got to just step aside.
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Medical-Legal Partnership Lowers Costs
via News by Marketplace on April 14, 2008
The nation's hospitals are struggling to care for low-income patients. Proposed solutions usually involve more money or more doctors. But some medical centers are trying a different approach -- more lawyers.Most of the time, when you hear about problems in healthcare it's a question of not enough money or not enough doctors. That's usually the case in cities. They're often short...
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The psychology of magical thoughts
via Mind Hacks by vaughan on April 12, 2008
Psychology Today has a great article that covers the length and breadth of magical thinking - the tendency to see patterns and causality where none exists.Magical thinking is described in a number of ways. Superstition is the most common, where we assume rituals will somehow affect the future despite having no causal connection to what we want to change.Apophenia or pareidolia describe the effect...
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Following the judicial pecking order
via FP Legal Post by Julius Melnitzer on March 04, 2008
Here's a decidedly new take on stare decisis. Except it's 30 years old.One day in 1979, Master Funduk of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench was dealing with the case of South Side Woodwork v. R.C. Contracting Ltd. The extent to which he was bound to follow the decisions of higher courts came up, giving him an opportunity to vent on the subject, which is precisely what he did: "I am...
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